Well, well, well… What do we have here? And they said it couldn’t be done… They said this day would never come! (I’m just kidding, nobody actually said that.)

Welcome, welcome back to this humble blog! Welcome to the start of a new era! I hope you’re ready for some BRIGHTER animations, because today we’re going to take a look at Vento Aureo #01, “Gold Experience!” Let’s dive in!

Vento Aureo’s first differences are these two animations, which are brighter in the BDs:

These few frames have better contrast and deeper blacks:

Here, have a brighter Koichi:

Let’s take a closer look at the previous animation… As you can see from this selected frame, it appears that this time around, the scenes that needed to be made dimmer aren’t dimmer overall! All the mid-range colours are still there (as you can see from Koichi’s trousers or the rubble in the front), it’s just the brighter bits who have been toned down. Interesting…:

The mid-episode eyecatch is looking much better! Sharper, brighter and with overall better contrast:

This DiU flashback sequence is brighter and uncensored:

Here, our friend 片山貴仁 (Katayama Takahito)’s job title has been changed from アクション作画監督 to アクションディレクター. They both meen pretty much the same thing, though (Action Director):

The lines on this Giorno are… very slightly thicker?:

Leaky-eye Luca’s fingers are brighter, here:

Alright, this difference needs a deep dive! Let’s begin with the first frame, in which they added the chopped fingers in mid-air:

One frame later, you can see that they were there in the TV version’s second frame; they’re now uncensored, and blurrier too:

The fingers move towards the camera one frame earlier, in the BD version:

Again, you can see how they’ve been uncensored and made blurrier here, when the TV version’s fingers catch up:

Once again, the fingers move one frame earlier in the BD…:

And one last frame to showcase the blurriness and uncensored…ness:

This whole scene, however, is so short that I can barely tell the difference! See for yourself:

Yeah, I told you… Let’s move on! Here, the fingers have been uncensored once again:

Here, we can see a new name in the credits: it’s 檜垣隆幸 (Higaki Takayuki), apparently responsible for promotion:

And we have come to the last difference for today! It’s our B.B.B.B., Best Boy Bruno Buccellati, with a brighter and sharper animation just for our lucky eyes:

And that’s it for today! Pretty lengthy for a first episode, but no real redraws to write home about. Pretty much what I expected, to be honest! I hope you had a good time reading this one, my good people. I’ll see you next time for Vento Aureo #02, “Buccellati’s Coming”!

Hello again, dear readers! Welcome back, welcome back. Today we’re going to take a look at Stardust Crusaders #10, “The Emperor and the Hanged Man - Part 1”, or “The First Death of Avdol”. Without further ado, then, let’s go!

Today’s first difference is this bit here, in which almost every face (except Avdol’s) has been retouched, and the little hand on Jotaro’s hairhat has also been drawn better:

A couple of lines have been very slightly retouched here on handsome Avdol:

In this scene, the monstrous faces of the kids on the very right of the frame have been made much better:

Here, Avdol’s jacket has been recoloured, and the man just behind him (from our point of view) has also been retouched:

Every face in these frames has been retouched (and thankfully for Joseph):

Every frame in this animation has been retouched…:

In addition to that, Polnareff has received an additional animation in this particular bit here…:

…and the camera movement in general is slightly different:

This animation is slightly brighter:

The rain effect in the superimposed flashback has been changed here as well (as it was in Episode #06):

Joseph and Polnareff’s faces have been retouched here (I’m not sure which version of the second one I prefer):

This animation of Hol Horse whipping out his Emperor is also a little brighter:

This scene has better contrasts and darker blacks:

Some of Emperor’s effects have been recoloured blue, such as here:

Here, have another brighter animation…:

As in other episodes, the BD version removed the on-screen credits and included a separate ending, as you can see here:

This animation has been made brighter and sharper:

Once again, Emperor’s smoke effects have been recoloured here:

Here you have another two brighter and sharper animations:

And a last one, this time just brighter:

Let’s have one last difference for the road, one last retouched Polnareff, for your eyes only:

Phew, and that’s it for today’s episode! I hope you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you next time for Stardust Cr- hmmmm? What’s this..? Can you feel it too, dear readers? Something moving, stirring in the air… There is a golden wind a-blowin’…

Today’s first difference are the coconuts, which have been recoloured here:

And once again here! The coconut guy has also been moved down a few pixels, and the coconuts themselves are now also properly casting a shadow:

Our Kak boy has been heavily retouched here:

The coconut strikes back:

And here (Anne has also been reshaded):

Most lines are thicker in this very close shot of Jotaro:

This scene is darker in the top left corner, and it’s also uncensored:

Catch another little bit of uncensored Kak here:

Aaand here again! Kakyoin’s face has also been shaded differently and Jotaro’s face has been retouched too:

Yeah that’s not gross at all:

Jotaro has been retouched again, here:

Here, have another uncensored and slightly re-shaded cherry boy:

Rubber Soul’s mouth has been closed here:

Have another handful of retouched lines on Jotaro, here:

ARAKI DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST:

The water effects are brighter and a little blurrier here…:

This idiot has been retouched, and Yellow Temperance (which only showed up for a few frames in the TV version) has been drawn in more consistently:

Jotaro has been retouched quite substantially here:

And here we have three obligatory brighter and sharper bits:

Rubber Soul has been retouched here, and the waist of Jotaro’s pants has been shaded a little brighter:

Both Kakyoin and Polnareff have been retouched here:

Let’s head to the credits! On the left, Action Director 片山貴仁 (Katayama Takahito) has been removed (since he’s been added to the OP instead), and on the right almost every name has been scaled differently:

The names have been spaced around differently here as well, 浜友里恵 (Hama Yurie) has been removed as usual, and the bottom left name, CLC has been changed to CLコーポレーション (CL Corporation):

CL -> CLコーポレーション once again here:

That’s it for today, folks! These comparisons are slowly getting longer and longer. I wonder if we’ll ever get to the glory days of the other parts… Stick around if you wanna find out! I’ll see you next time for Stardust Crusaders #10, “The Emperor and the Hanged Man - Part 1”! Still no news about Vento Aureo, sorry.

Hello, good folks, and welcome back to your friendly neighborhood comparisonman. Today we’re going to take a look at Stardust Crusaders #08, “Devil”!

Let’s get started!

Today’s first difference can be found here: Joseph’s head has been retouched, the stripes on his left shoulder are a little different (and they now match his right shoulder) and if you look closely you can see that, in the background, there was one guy who was clipping through the staircase in the TV version; this has been fixed as well:

Here, Polnareff’s jawline is looking a tiny tiny bit different, the insides of his ear have been shaded properly and his cheekbone area has also been retouched a little:

This scene has been uncensored:

Here, both Polnareff and Silver Chariot have been moved a little bit to the right, and they’re both looking better too! (The tip of Devo’s head has also been moved along with them, in the few frames he’s included):

Here, have another few gloriously uncensored bits:

Here, both Joseph and Avdol’s faces have been heavily retouched; Joseph’s gloves have been recoloured a little bit and the shadows cast by his arms are a little lighter:

In later frames, Joseph’s right arm has also been moved slightly, and there’s an additional… uh… circle? thing? on Avdol’s clothes:

This scene has been almost completely recoloured, the light effects are different and the silhouette is much darker:

This HORRIFYING scene has been uncensored too:

Disgusting. Anyway, this bit here is brighter and sharper:

The contrast is better here…:

And this two brief animations are brighter again:

Let’s go back to a couple of darker frames, here:

And here, at the climax of the episode, we inevitably have a handful of brighter and sharper animations:

Here, the wound on the puppet’s face has been correctly flipped:

And here we have Devo’s uncensored body, sporting the world’s weirdest wounds:

From here until the end of the episode, the BD version has no credits (but instead, as usual, added a separate ending):

This bit of Joseph using Hermit Purple on the TV is a little brighter:

Here, the contrast is better:

And this bit of DIO doing what is perhaps his weirdest feat in the whole of Stardust Crusaders is also brighter:

While this bit here is darker, sharper and has much better contrast:

Here, both Avdol and Joseph have been retouched and moved (along with the smoke):

And that’s it for today’s comparison! We’re finally getting something a little bit more consistent to sink our comparison teeth into, huh? Good, good! I’ll see you next time for Stardust Crusaders #09, “Yellow Temperance”… Ciao!

P.S.: I still can’t offer you any ETA on the Vento Aureo comparisons, as I’ve yet to get the BD. As soon as I do, I’ll either write something in a comparison here, or tweet something on my twitter account. Sorry I can’t give you anything more solid than that!

Hello, hello, hello, good people! This being the holiday season, it’s inevitable that my comparison rate will go up a little bit in comparison with my normal weekly/bi-weekly schedule. It’s also the perfect time to make up for the skipped weeks! I trust you don’t have anything against that, yes?

Well, without further ado, let’s take a close look at today’s episode, “Strength”!

Today’s first difference is this scene with Dio & Enya here. Dio’s left hand has been retouched and now looks decidedly less wonky:

This compass here has been tweaked a fair amount! Most notably, the old SE (of which there were two of) has been fixed into SW, “ES” (which is not a valid cardinal direction) has been fixed into SE, and almost everything else has been either scaled or moved around a little bit. Good job, David pro:

This scene has been uncensored, and the poor fellow has also been shaded a little differently in the first shot:

This scene is more zoomed out and less steamy. Anne’s outline is way less blurry, and there’s… something weird in the TV version. I never noticed it, but one of Anne’s poses remains sort of… stuck in place. This is fixed in the BDs:

These poor sailors have all been uncensored, and their cast shadows have also been tweaked a little bit:

Here we have a couple of brighter and sharper scenes:

This illegal scene of Jotaro has also been uncensored, and Jotaro himself has been retouched here and there too:

Let’s get to the c-c-c-c-credits! Here, on the left, Animator 中屋了 (Nakaya Satoru)’s name has been spaced a little better:

And here, like in Episode #05 and #06, 浜友里恵 (Hama Yurie) has been removed from the credits:

And that’s it for today’s comparison! Another short one - but that’s no surprise, given the obviously gargantuan production values this series had. I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless, and I’ll see you again for episode #08, “Devil”!

Hello, good people from all around the world! I apologize for the long absence, but I’m temporarily stuck in a reality bubble which is completely devoid of a stable Internet connection. I’ve managed to sneak out of said bubble for just enough time to cobble together a quick comparison… So, without further ado, let’s delve into episode #06 of Stardust Crusaders! I hope you’re ready to see some sliced sharks, some uncensored smoking teenagers and some neat finger tricks!

Let’s go!

Today’s first difference is this bit where Jotaro, Kakyoin and both deckchairs have been retouched in several places. Kakyoin’s also holding the book differently:

Let’s move on to the main course: shark sashimi! Bone apple teeh!:

HEY, JOTARO!!! YOU CAN’T DO THAT ON NATIONAL TELEVISION!!!!!!!!:

The world’s stupidest censoring has been removed here as well, and the overall shading is also a little different:

This is a christian broadcast, Jotaro:

This very dynamic scene of Captain Tennille snatching the incriminated object away from that poor teenager’s innocent lips is brighter and sharper:

Here our Cool Squad is sporting some thicker lines and some retouched details here and there (especially Polnareff, who wasn’t looking so hot in the TV version):

Ok, this… This I do not understand. Polnareff has been retouched here, and his hand now has… six fingers…? WHY, DAVID?:

Grandpappy Joseph has received a fresh coat of paint here:

Another brighter and sharper animation for your bright and sharp eyes only:

This other explosion, instead, is a little darker:

Let’s get to the credits, peeps! You and me! Here, the two bottom names on the left have been spaced out a little more evenly:

And here, the two columns have been incorporated into a single one and the section デジタル動画 (“Digital Video”) has been added in the middle:

And that’s it for today’s comparison! I hope this holiday season has been treating you well, and you and I will see each other again (hopefully) soon, with episode #07, “Strength”, or “Ape Escape”, or “The Year of Intelligent Apes”! Ciao!

P.S.: The Vento Aureo comparisons will start as soon as I can get my hands on the Blu Ray!

Hello, good people, and welcome back to this humble blog! Today we’re going to take a look at Stardust Crusaders #05, “Silver Chariot”! As somebody correctly foresaw at the end of the previous comparison, today’s post will contain a ton of the “brighter and sharper” scenes we all know and love, so strap in, get a pair of sunglasses and, just in case, be aware of that fact if you suffer from some kind of epilepsy!

Alright, let’s begin…

Let’s start the post with four little brighter and sharper animations! Here you go:

Alright, let’s take a little break from all that BS (Brighter ‘n’ Sharper)! Here, Polnareff’s mouth flap is slightly different, resulting in a couple of frames where his mouth is a little more closed:

For some reason, the TV version of this bit here has a black bar at the top in the first few frames; this has been corrected in the BDs:

Both Polpol and Silver Chariot have been retouched in this bit here:

Alright, have another very brief brighter and sharper bit:

A teeny tiny bit on Polnareff’s brow has been retouched, here…:

Here, have another bunch of BS:

These couple of frames are, instead… darker:

Have another last serving of BS:

Phew! Here, Joseph has received a bunch of retouches here and there:

In this tragic flashback about the man with two right hands, the rain effect is different around his left hand (probably precisely to make the fact that it’s actually another second right hand easier to see):

Alright, let’s tackle some credit differences! Here, on the left, the first name (Animator 片山貴仁 - Katayama Takahito) has been removed, the three names below that have been moved up and there’s a new name of the bottom (ソエジマヤスフミ - Soejima Yasufumi):

Here, a name on the right (Animator 浜友里恵 - Hama Yurie) has been removed, and the rest has been moved around accordingly:

The “3D Modeling” section has once again been removed here (as it was in episode #01):

And that’s it for today’s comparison, good folks from all over the world! I hope you had fun, and you and I will see each other again soon! Meet you here, same place, same time (give or take a week) for Stardust Crusaders #06, “Dark Blue Moon”!

Hello, peeps! How are you doing? I’m still reeling from the INCREDIBLE gift that was the torture dance scene in Vento Aureo #07. I still cannot believe that David Production pulled through and gave us something that 100% exceeded my expectations. Whew! But you’re not here to read my impressions about the last Vento Aureo episode, are you? What do you say we dive into today’s episode instead, “Tower of Gray”?

Today’s first difference is this initial scene, in which everybody’s received a fresh paint of texture, a couple of things here or there have been retouched…:

… The holes in the seats are now correctly coloured black…:

… And this disgusting thing has also been uncensored:

Have a look at it in motion, just because:

I hope you came here today expecting to see a whole bunch of uncensored frames, because that’s precisely what you will get:

This bit here has also been uncensored, and on top of that it no longer sports that heavy vignette along the edges:

While here, the same dude has been uncensored again, and he no longer has that heavy shadow on him:

This scene has much less motion blur along the edges, and the pilots’ head are uncensored too:

Are you ready for a second serving of gross uncensored things? OPEN UP:

Let’s take a quick break for an animated uncensoring! You need to see all the frames on this baby. The cut tongue is kinda humorous to me, because it kinda ends up looking like a pink mustache:

Another quick uncensored bit here…:

And same here, and in addition to that some blood spurts have also been moved a fair bit:

Have a last couple of uncensored frames, here:

Let’s move on from all that blood and carnage to this peaceful scene, in which a very very tiny line near Joseph’s right ear is a little thicker. Wow!:

ARE YOU READY FOR OUR FIRST BIG STARDUST CRUSADERS REDRAW, BOIS? HERE, HAVE A SPOONFUL:

Phew! Here, Joseph’s beard has one more line:

Joseph’s face has been redrawn once again, here:

And once again here, Joseph shows us that he truly was Battle Tendency’s protagonist and King of Redraws! The camera has also been moved a little bit:

In this bit here, the pronunciations have been replaced with dots, and in two places the hanzi 雛 has been replaced with 雞:

In a couple of frames from the TV version, Polnareff’s upper lip was missing its texture; this has been fixed in the BD:

A couple of frames have been made darker and less washed-out in the BD; I can’t show you the animation because it’s literally four frames long:

This scene of Silver Chariot cutting through flames has been made sharper and brighter:

Here, Gray Fly’s voice actor’s name has been corrected: 長克巳 (Chō Katsumi)’s last character was mistakenly written as 己 in the TV version, and has been corrected to 巳 in the BD:

Aaand that’s it for today! Finally something a little more meaty to sink our comparison teeth into, huh? Well, who knows, soon we might look back to these first shorter comparisons with tearful eyes, as the old man looks back on his childhood wishing he could relive those simpler, easier days… Well, anyway, see ya next time!

Hello, good people of the internet! Welcome back to what will perhaps be the quickest, swiftest analysis we will make of an episode. I apologize in advance for the little content this week’s comparison will offer, but that’s just how things are, I’m afraid. Without further ado, let’s not make this needlessly longer, and let’s plunge into episode #03 of Stardust Crusaders, “The Curse of Dio”!

Let’s begin with… the only different scene in this episode! Here, you can see that Holly, her panties and the futon she’s sleeping under have been shaded slightly differently…:

… The mouth flap animation in this scene is also a little different…:

… and in a couple of frames, Holly is now sporting her dimple, which was missing in the TV version. Very important:

Aaand let’s quickly move to the credits, for a further couple of differences! This episode was the first one with a proper ending sequence, and here you can see that this bit has been made brighter and sharper in the BDs:

And, as you might have noticed, towards the end of the previous animation the credits have also been moved to the right, like so:

Here’s something I never, ever noticed! In the TV version of this bit here, Avdol had two right hands…! Is Avdol the man who really killed Polnareff’s sister?! Was J. Geil just an innocent man, framed by Avdol for a crime he did not commit?! Avdol even faked his death in the very same episode… Was it just to throw everyone off? Follow this blog for more shocking revelations:

As usual, マベリカ (Maverica) has been added to the credits here:

As in episode #01, 服部健太郎 (Hattori Kentarо̄) has been added here too (third group from the top):

And that’s it for this week, I’m afraid! But fear not, for next week will surely deliver uncensored wounds aplenty and pierced tongues in abundance!

Good morning, evening, afternoon, night and whatever else might be appropriate for your time zone! Today we’re going to take a very quick look at episode #02 of Stardust Crusaders, “Who Will Be the Judge!?”. I say “quick look” because there are not that many differences to talk of, but I’ll shut up now and let you take a look for yourselves.

Today’s first difference is (surprise surprise!) a brighter animation:

Quickly moving on, we can see how in this bit of the openings, the BDs have added a bottom line for animator 片山貴仁 (Katayama Takahito), and it’s fully animated:

In this sequence, Joseph’s face has been retouched in a bunch of tiny ways, see if you can spot them all (including the magical disappearing thumb):

This lovely lovely scene is now uncensored:

And this first appearance of fan-favourite Hierophant Green is looking brighter and sharper:

Here, Jotaro is now sporting a wound on his left knee:

Aaaand now for a quick credit difference! Here, アベリカ (Maverica) has been added to the credits, under the section “Website Production”:

And that’s it for this week’s comparison! I’m not sure whether these short comparisons are due to the increased budget SC had, or if it’s because we’re still within the first episodes, but either way I’m grateful for these fast and easy posts! See you next week for episode #03, “The Curse of Dio”!

Hello hello hello, good people! Well met! I promised you the crusade of a lifetime, and I hope you’re ready for it! We finally made it, ladies and gentlemen… We’re finally here! It took us more than two years, but I hope these comparisons will be worth the wait. Let’s get right into the first one, what do you say? As you can imagine, this being episode #01 and all, it won’t have many differences… But let’s get started nonetheless!

Today’s first difference is this bit of credits, in which 光田史亮 (Kо̄ta Fumiaki) was added in the middle, credited as “Stand Designer” and “Action Animation Director”. Check it out:

Moving on, this scene has a brighter vignette along the edges, and Holly’s face, hair and dress have also been retouched throughout:

The camera has also been moved a tad in the middle of the sequence:

This whole sequence is brighter and much sharper:

While this is much brighter:

Another two brighter and sharper sequences of this good mom running, for your eyes only:

And now for a very insignificant change! The title of the episode fades out more… smoothly in the BDs. Have a very brief video and a comparison frame (because I doubt many of you will be able to actually see the difference in the video):

Have another couple of brighter and sharper animations here, this time of Avdol whipping out his charred bird:

Magician’s Red spouts slightly brighter flames in this scene:

Moving on, these two clips of Joseph showing off his incredibly overpowered Stand are also brighter and sharper:

The first frames after the crash are also brighter:

It’s time for some credit differences already! But this time there’s a whole bunch of them. Here, the two names that were previously under “david production” (石本峻一, Ishimoto Shun’ichi and 西村彩, Nishimura Aya) have been incorporated into the main section:

The same applies here to 福田周平 (Fukuda Shūhei):

The credits here, instead, have been spaced a little bit more:

Here, the whole “3D Modeling” section (containing three names: david production, ソエジマヤスフミ - Soejima Yasufumi and 檜垣賢一 - Higaki Ken’ichi) has been removed, since they were all just duplicates of the names contained in the 3DCGI section, just below:

Here, they added マベリカ (Maverica) at the bottom, under “Website Production”:

And let’s close up with this other bit of credits, in which 服部健太郎 (Hattori Kentarо̄) has been added in the middle, under the section “Digital Production”:

And that’s it! As far as crusades go, this was probably rather tame, but even a crusade of a thousand miles starts with one step! Well, in any case, see you next time for Episode #02, “Who Will Be the Judge!?”!

Well well well, ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in-between… Here we are at last! The end of Battle Tendency! Are you sitting comfortably? Are you ready to say goodbye to young Joseph?

Let’s cut to the chase and get this thing going!

Today’s first difference is this explosion, now brighter in the BD version:

Here, Kars has been retouched, and his mouth is now open to reflect the fact that he’s beeing melted in a frigging volcano:

Joseph has been redrawn here:

Stroheim’s head and neck have been retouched here, and if you move the slider left and right very quickly you can see him subtly headbanging to the German national anthem (which, I’m sure, is constantly looping in his mind):

Joseph’s neck has also been shaded a little more in some frames like this one:

Joseph’s arm has been uncensored here…:

…the onomatopoeia is also slightly different…:

…and towards the end of the same animation, in addition to the new blood particles, the camera has also been moved:

Here, the camera is slightly different, the arm is once again uncensored and there are more blood particles:

And the shot oscillates a bit more in the BD version:

Here’s a similar shot! The camera has been slightly moved, Joseph’s hand stump has been uncensored, there are less blood particles (weird, I know), the shaded parts are a little darker and have received the usual scratch texture overlay:

Alright, there’s a bunch of different things here… Most things have been moved around, slightly re-shaded or recoloured, the pink blob (it’s actually a smoke cloud from the volcano, believe it or not) behind Kars has been resized slightly, Joseph’s arm stump has been uncensored again and Kars’ arm blade is now shining:

BEWARE! THE BLOB!:

All three sections of this diagram have different textures, the text is much bigger and now has a drop shadow:

This scene is brighter and better shaded, and the light that comes from the crack looks much better:

As you might have noticed from the above animation, there are a couple of frames in which Joseph’s arm is lit in the wrong way, and this has been fixed in the BD:

The Earth in this animation starts a little bit blurrier:

And Kars has been redrawn too:

The animation in the TV version later becomes the same as the BD version, except for the shading on the inside of Kars’ ears (very important for an omnipontent God):

The sky is different in this scene, and Kars’ shoulder has been shaded more smoothly:

This bit is much brighter:

While this is a little darker:

Alright, I don’t know if this happened before, but the BD version of this episode has an entirely new bit of Kars posing majestically! Here you go:

Phew! And now for a much more dramatic, more important difference… The sweat drop on Stroheim has been moved by a few pixels:

Here, the shading is brighter, Joseph’s arm has been uncensored as usual and the smoke on the right is thicker:

And here, on top of the usual uncensoring, they drew in the missing arm too:

This shot is very heavily distorted around the edges, and they drew the arm again:

Have another gander at that bloody stump, brothers and sisters, and also take notice of the top-left corner of this frame, which is for some reason a little brighter:

This whole animation is different, check it out:

Here, the lava/blood effect on Joseph’s molten knee is different, and the hamon aura surrounding Kars has also been changed:

Whew, this one has a bunch of different things! First of all, check the background, which has been shaded differently and looks less flat… Then take a look at the Aja stone, which now exists on the physical plane and therefore casts a shadow, and then marvel at Kars’ hand, which is now surrounded by a brighter and sparklier hamon aura:

The freeze-frame right before the eyecatch has been recoloured as well:

The light effects here on the hamon ray of death are much brighter…:

…there are a couple of frames which were white in the TV version and have been drawn in, in the BD version:

…and as you probably saw from the animation above, the frames after Kars hits the Aja stone are much different! It’s probably better if you look for yourself:

When Joseph’s face appears in half of the frame, he’s very brightly illuminated for a couple of frames…:

And, as you can see from the above animation, when the bright flash subsides, Joseph’s face is lit with a different colour, there’s a new motion-blur around the edges and the dividing line-thing is also brighter:

On top of the same difference as above, this flashback scene (of like ten seconds ago) has been recoloured as well:

This scene is slightly more zoomed in…:

…and they added an onomatopoeia in the BD version:

Let’s move on with the flashabacks! ACDC now has an aura in this scene, he’s been reshaded and his right hand has been retouched and there are more blood particles:

They added the arm here, once again…:

These two explosions are brighter and sharper:

The dust is thicker in this scene, the dirt particles in the air are different, Stroheim’s mechanical eye shines very brightly in the sun…:

…and the camera shakes more too:

Joseph, Kars and Joseph’s hand have all been moved more to the center of the rock, and the camera has been moved too:

Both have been moved and retouched, here:

This shot has been shaded differently (very, very subtly), Joseph’s arm stump is uncensored and the background is also different:

The arm stump has been uncensored once again here, the background is different (againnnn) and the camera is more zoomed in:

This shot is overall less blurry, more zoomed in, the stone “trails” are much brighter and there are more… air particles???????? too:

…and the camera and lighting, at the end, are also different:

Take a look at the whole thing, just because:

This scene is brighter and sharper too, and there’s less of a blur along the edges:

The camera in the following scene shakes around more…:

…Joseph has been retouched too (a slightly different shading on his right shoulder), the dust effect is a little different…:

And, as before, the stone trails are brighter here too:

The characters “死亡・・・” (deceased…) appear more gradually in the BD:

R.E.O.’s eyes now have a line below them, here…:

These two randos had a small line above both of their mouths; that has been corrected in the BDs:

This animation is a little different (there are a couple of extra frames before the zoom out, which make the transition a little less sudden):

Everyone is bigger here:

Some frames of this random Japanese guy have been redrawn:

Aha! A credit difference… And it’s not the last difference in this comparison! Let’s see… Here, one name has been corrected: 森田岳士 (Morita Takashi)’s name was previously spelled as 岳史 (both are pronounced “Takashi”, and to be fair, “岳士” is a rather irregular variant). You can find it in the center bunch of names, second column from the left, fifth name from the top:

Let’s move on… Beyond the credits! This scene has been completely redrawn and recoloured! Have a gander for yourself:

Here, once again, the sky has been completely recoloured, there’s a new lens flare, the frame is slightly distorted along the edges, and the rope in the foreground now has sections (probably to help give it a clearer sense of motion):

Take all differences from the previous frame and apply them here as well! On top of that, the water is way less blurry as well:

And, good people of the court, let’s get to what is (perhaps) Battle Tendency’s most famous difference! The transition on this zoom out is much faster in the BD version, because… they added a “to be continued” arrow to it! Check it out:

Well then, friends! This is it! With this comparison, Battle Tendency is done and over with! It was quite a long, bizarre, difference-filled trip, and I hope you had fun tagging along! Y’all know what’s coming up… See you next time (in a week or so) for the Crusade of a lifetime!

Why, hello again, good people! Fancy seeing you here… Do you come here often? Because I do. At least, lately. I trust you don’t have anything to object to that, yeah? I decided I’m going to finish Battle Tendency this week, so that I can finally, properly, actually tackle what I actually made this site for in the first place… Stardust Crusaders! So, without further ado… I hope you haven’t had enough of my comparisons, because today we’re going to take a look at episode #25 of Battle Tendency, “Birth of the Ultimate Being!”

Let’s get going!

Today’s first difference is Kars, whom in this shot is smaller and has been recoloured. The smoke coming off of his right arm is also slightly different:

Here, the shot is uncensored once again, there’s a distortion around the edges, the background is blurrier, there are more blood particles and there’s a dark vignette:

And the camera also shakes around more:

Death by squirrel (also a very good name for an indie death metal/dark cabaret band):

Kars’ butterfly-hand flaps its wings more:

Joseph is more centered here, and he’s also been retouched (although I preferred it when his nose was shaded):

Kars is looking even sluttier here:

Joseph has been redrawn, here:

MORE MAKE-UP:

Joseph has been redrawn again, here, and the background is also slightly closer:

Joseph is looking different here as well, and the clouds have been moved a little too (I never understand why they do it! Why move the clouds by a little bit?):

Back to Kars! Most lines in this shot are a little thicker, his face has been redrawn to comply a little more to the perspective, and the feathers on his headpiece are looking much better too

Here, have a smattering of Josephs:

A few frames are a little brighter, here:

This bit is a little sharper, the colours are a little more saturated and the camera shakes a little bit more:

And this is brighter and sharper:

Almost everything in this scene has been moved, retouched or scaled up/down… The plane control has been removed entirely! Have a look for yourself:

And again here (plus a different distortion):

This scene is more zoomed in:

Kars’ grizzly wounds have been uncensored here, there’s more blood particles, the wind effects are different and Kars has been also shaded differently:

Here, have a closer look at that mangled body:

And again here, plus a different overall shading:

LEMME GIVE YOU A HAND:

This animation is also a tiny bit sharper:

And, to tie this comparison up, say hi again to 石本峻一 (Ishimoto Shun’ichi), added at the bottom here:

Whew! Another one done… One more to go! I’m aiming to finish everything by the end of the week, but I could be off by a couple of days, if the next episode is another giga mammoth like some of the past ones. But I doubt it! Usually finales are well-animated and need little to no touch-ups (not you, Stardust Crusaders). Well, in any case, see you next time!

Hello again! As you can see, lately the comparisons have been coming more frequently than usual - that’s simply because I’m currently on vacation, and have a little more time to dedicate to this blog! Don’t get too used to this new accelerated schedule, though… It’s back to work for me, on Monday! Well, anyway, welcome back… Today we’re going to take a look at the comparison for episode #24, “The Ties that Bind JoJo”!

Let’s blow this popsicle stand!

Today’s first difference is this shot of Wham, where his head has been redrawn, the lighting is different, there are more specks of dust in the air…:

…and, obviously, the crumbling animation is different too:

The tip of Kars’ nose has been retouched here:

And the background in this shot is much more interesting:

This shot of Stroheim blasting the zombies with light is less blurry and less distorted, and the light effect itself is completely different:

Kars’ face has been retouched here:

The BD version of this shot starts more zoomed in, and slowly zooms out:

In this shot, the zombies have glowing red eyes:

And in this bit, both Kars and Joseph have been moved and retouched; notably, the rope now wraps around Joseph’s hand:

The rope again, here…:

Joseph’s been slightly moved and retouched here (and the rope is, once again, wrapped around his hand…):

Here, this shot is more zoomed in on Kars’ juicy buttocks, there’s more of a distortion along the edges and Joseph has also been slightly moved, I think:

Alright, y’all should know the ropes by now:

This slashing animation is brighter:

I’m at the end of my rope… (the fire is also a little bit brighter):

Alright, folks, say goodbye to the rope, and say hello to the crystals! Almost everything is brighter here, Kars’ wounds are uncensored, and the crystals in the foreground are slightly blurrier:

And again here… (the text on the bottom is also missing and the pattern on Kars’ arm is different too):

The background is lit differently here:

Once again the crystals are brighter, the wounds are uncensored and the burning pattern on Kars’ arm is different:

Here, apart from the same old brighter crystals, it’s the shading on his arm to be different, not the pattern:

Old uncle Speed Weed has been redrawn here:

And here, a corner of his right cheek has been filed and is now less spiky…:

Even Speedwagon is redrawn:

Let’s close this short comparison with a quick credit difference! Here, animator 糸井恵 (Itoi Megumi) has been added at the bottom:

And that’s it for today, I’m afraid! This comparison was surprisingly quick and painless… I can’t even remember the last time I made a comparison with so few images and videos! I hope you still enjoyed it nonetheless.

See you next time for the second-to-last episode in Joseph’s Bizarre Adventure!

Hello again, people! I trust you had a pleasant week and I hope you’re ready for another healthy serving of redraws. Today’s comparison will be about Battle Tendency #23, “The Warrior Returns to the Wind”! It’s gonna be much shorter than last time’s, but that’s not saying much, since last time we had a mammoth of unprecedented size.

Without further ado then, let’s dive in!

Let’s begin with a slightly redrawn Kars, flexing his muscly fingers in anticipation for his upcoming rock-paper-scissors championship finals:

In this shot both Wham, Joseph and the horn-wind effect between them have been moved, the whole shot itself is more distorted along the edges, there are some extra white effects which represent the wind, the background itself has been retouched, the two smaller fires no longer stand out that much against the bigger fire in the background and that… yellowy thing near Joseph is no longer there:

Here, Joseph has been slightly moved, they added some white movement lines along the edges (and a slight distortion under them as well), and Caesar’s bandana (rest in pepperoni) has been moved too:

This animation now has a darker vignette along the edges, and they also added another set of movement lines (black, this time):

Here, Joseph is sweating less and his right eye has been retouched:

Aha! That’s what that yellow thing was back there! Anyway, here the perspective on the background has been changed… Is this the first time that happens? Anyway! The shading on Joseph’s face is also different:

The scratch texture overlay is different here:

This animation is brighter:

Here, this shot looks less distorted around the edges, the shadows on Kars are darker and the lines on his face have been removed as well:

Here, both Joseph and Wham’s arms have been retouched…:

…and, in a couple of frames, they added a crack effect in the background. But… everything is cracked. Even the air:

Here, the flowing blood has been moved, and the scratch texture overlay around the mouth is slightly different…:

…and the lava-blood has also been fixed in a couple of frames (since it was slightly messed up in the TV version):

And here, Joseph has received a darker scratch texture overlay, and he’s now wearing the ring with the antidote on his inky dinky pinky:

Here, the smoke effect is different, and Joseph’s upper lip area has also been retouched:

The camera has been moved in this shot, the blur effect is completely different and the zombies have been retouched too (especially the eyes, which are now glowing):

Here, the wounds have been uncensored, most things are brighter and Wham’s lower jaw has been retouched too:

Here, Joseph, have a better set of eyes:

Ah, another BD mistake… For some reason, a tiny bit of hair has been de-coloured here (this only lasts for a couple of frames, luckily):

Kars is, once again, wearing less make-up here:

In this flashback Wham has been moved, redrawn completely, and he’s no longer draped in that thing; those two figures lying down below the altar have also been moved and retouched:

Ah, a complete redraw! How exciting:

Here, all the zombies have been redrawn and re-shaded, and the top-right corner is also darker (and the bottom text is missing, but that’s not new):

The goons are looking better here as well…:

And here too! Plus, they’ve been uncensored (and the one on the left is even wearing pants now):

Here, the highlights on Kars’ hair are looking better, his shoulder has been retouched, and… for some reason, the strap for his foreahead thingie is missing:

A few frames later, the strap appears, but is coloured differently (?):

And finally, the shading on his neck and chin is lighter:

Once again, the zombie goons are looking much better here:

The onomatopoeia appears with a different animation, here:

And this front goon is also looking a little better here (more lines on the neck, a differently-coloured tongue):

Joseph’s arms are no longer scratched here:

And Kars’ nose is no longer shaded that much on the bottom:

In this bit of Kars doing one of the WEIRDEST THINGS he does in the entire series (and that’s counting him transforming his hand into a squirrel), he’s been retouched…:

And the animation itself is different too:

Let’s end this episode on a familiar note! Our old friend 宝谷幸稔 (Hōtani Yukitoshi) has been added to the credits for this episode, here:

And that’s it for today’s comparison! We’re getting closer and closer to the end of Battle Tendency… I can’t wait to start taking a look at Stardust Crusaders! To think that, originally, I started thinking about this blog precisely because nobody had done any comparisons for Part 3… Oh well, I’ve just been side-tracked, that’s all!

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome back again to this quaint little blog, wherein I examine and analyze and tear apart our favourite bizarre media!

Vento Aureo’s first episode has energized me, and I decided to get to the new comparison as soon as possible… Which is why today we’re going to take a look at Battle Tendency #22, “A True Warrior”! Are you ready for the world’s most fabulous chariot race slash battle slash dick size contest? Are you ready to dive into this blog’s longest comparison to date? Strap in, grab something to eat and get ready for a long, long ride!

Let’s get started!

Today’s first difference is the now missing opening credits, which in the BD version have been moved to the opening proper:

Fireplace for Your Home v3 (now brighter and sharper):

Here, the guards standing this (admittedly not very pretty) Lisa Lisa are closer, and the background is instead a little more zoomed out:

Here, Joseph has been completely redrawn, and both him and the carriage have been also moved by a few pixels (the scratch texture overlay is also slightly different):

This scene has a completely different lighting going on:

The clouds have been moved here:

Wham has gracefully scooted away a little bit in the BD version of this scene:

Another wildly redrawn Joseph, for your eyes only:

Joseph slides in frame with a slightly different timing here:

Here Joseph’s face has been redrawn, he’s been tilted to the left by approximately two pixels, his back is properly shaded…:

…and here, two spots (on his forearm and on one of his knuckles) are brighter:

Here, some bits on Wham have been shaded better, and the title is strangely missing (I’m assuming this is an error, since in the BD the title remains on screen for 59 frames, which is a little bit over two seconds…):

This scene has a different lighting, an additional vignette around the edges…:

And it’s also shaking in the BD version! Check it out:

Here, the rubble that Joseph throws near Wham’s carriage wheel is substantially bigger! I always thought that in the TV version they looked ridiculously small…:

Another completely redrawn Joseph! What joy! The triangle they’re using to split the screen is also smaller, the bandana is now behind the scarf, and a yellow bit on the scarf itself has been recoloured (although I don’t like it much):

Here, Joseph has been retouched, reshaded, and the bandana has received a makeover:

The wheel has now been shaded more in this here scene:

A change of mood! Joseph is no longer grinning his smug grin here:

Here, Kars has been shaded way more dramatically, and the fire looks a little brighter:

The same dramatic lighting is reflected in this scene, in which Lisa Lisa has also been completely redrawn (and thank goodness for that)! The dividing line has also been slightly moved, and Lisa Lisa has received the same lighting makeover as Kars:

Here, Joseph’s been moved and retouched:

Joseph’s chin is no longer clipping through his scarf here:

In this scene, both pillar and man (heh, pillar man) in the foreground are bigger, and the smoke under Joseph’s carriage is also slightly different:

Here, have a fantastically retouched Lisa Lisa:

Woo, what a difference! Joseph looks much better here and he’s also been moved a little more in the top left corner; the background is a little more blurred, and the colouring looks much more vibrant and interesting! On top of that, they added a dark vignette around the edges too:

You can see the same differences here… And Wham’s also been moved and retouched too (and the dividing line has moved with him):

I think this change speaks for itself…:

This angry zombie mob is now much more dynamically shot:

And this transition is also looking different:

Here, Kars has been redrawn and looks less… blocky. The inside of Lisa Lisa’s mouth has also been recoloured:

Aah, I love animations where all frames have been redrawn… Let’s take a look:

And let’s look at it in motion…:

Another quick brighter and sharper animation:

A bit of skin has been properly recoloured here…:

Aaaand let’s take another deep dive! Let’s start with the fact that Joseph is now… wearing a shirt:

He also looks way less happy about the whole situation:

And let’s watch it in motion:

Wham has been slightly moved here, and his face has been redrawn as well (I’m not sure about the end result, though):

The blur is invereted in the BD version of this scene:

Joseph has been redrawn, and he’s no longer falling off his damn horse:

Ah, fantastic! chef’s kiss:

The clouds have been moved… Again. I don’t really understand why, but here we go:

This leg grab transition is different in the BDs…:

…and the colour and position are also a little different:

The bit where Wham’s arm goes into the horse (god, this sentence sounds wrong) is different in the BDs:

Joseph has been moved back a tad, so that it no longer looks as if he’s hovering a little bit:

Aaaand here we go again:

Whew! Let’s move on… Here, Joseph is a little closer to the camera:

Here we have another one of those errors that have been introduced with the redraws… Here, both Joseph and Wham have been moved more to the right, so that the scene is a little more centered (Wham’s face has also been retouched), but… Joseph is no longer holding the reins with his foot! They’re just… hovering there:

Kars has also been moved and redrawn… And he looks a little less smug:

Wham’s Holy Sandstorm is brighter and sharper too:

Both Lisa Lisa and the camera have been moved, here:

Ok, this animation is a little boring… But in the BDs Kars lifts up that phial a little later:

And this glass breaks in a more convincing way:

Kars has got a different background, here…:

And here, Kars is taller, he’s been retouched and the camera has also been moved:

Lisa Lisa has been redrawn here:

Here, Kars’ mouth area is slightly less shaded, and the dude in the background has been removed entirely:

Here, Joseph has been moved, retouched and the background is also slightly different:

In this scene, the transition to the… questionably animated Wham on the right side of the screen happens much later:

And the Wham on the left side of the screen has also been shaded better:

Kars has been slightly moved and retouched here:

These two crossbows have been scaled up and down (respectively):

The… blood in this scene has been… “uncensored”:

This scene of Wham giving us a double thumbs-up has been retouched:

Aaand Joseph joins the redrawn party:

Let’s move on to a completely, radically different thing… Joseph has been slightly retouched and reshaded, here:

And here, for something… horny:

Wham and the crossbow have both been retouched here. I’m not a crossbow expert, but that thing they removed near the trigger looked a bit… weird and out of place:

Lisa Lisa now has bottom teeth in some frames (and her tongue has been consequently moved a little bit up):

Joseph back at it again at Krispy Kreme:

The crowd is SHAKING:

Wham has been retouched here once more, and the background clouds have been moved a little bit to the right:

Wham’s little nosie is now as shiny as the moon:

Ok, I don’t know why, but the top band on Wham’s… turban thingie has been unshaded:

This bit here is slightly brighter and sharper:

This whole animation is a little different! It begins more zoomed in, then zooms out and changes colour, there’s less shaking and the blood spurt happens more quickly:

The projectile shot by Joseph’s crossbow has been moved in this here shot:

Kars has been, once again, redrawn here, and the background has also been moved:

Joseph again here… Plus, he now casts a shadow on the ground:

Look at this smug son of a gun! In the first frames of this shot, everything has a redder tint, and the two corners are completely red (the overall tint normalizes a few frames later):

Aaand once again with the redrawn Joseph, as before (but more smug):

Joseph is looking much smoother here! He no longer looks like a sketch:

And here, the whole picture has been moved around a tiiiiny bit (and, most notably, the two blood spurts):

Oh, would you look at that? Joseph again:

Wham has been moved, retouched and re-shaded in some bits, and the lava/blood things have also been made a little better (more lava-like?):

Joseph is now looking at the camera, some details have been retouched and most things have been moved a little bit down:

Most frames in this animation have been redrawn:

Joseph is smaller here…:

…while Wham has been moved up:

The framing of this animation is slightly different, and a bunch of frames have been (surprise, surprise) retouched:

Joseph (ft. Wham’s hands) have been moved in this scene, most lines are thinner, they’ve both received a (light and gentle) retouching treatment, and there’s a new source of light behind them (namely, the big fire in the middle of the arena):

Wham is bigger here:

The background behind Kars has been changed (again) here…:

A tiny line on Joseph’s nose (which was, presumably, an error) has been removed in the BD version:

In this scene of Wham detonating, Joseph’s overlay face slides into frame a little earlier, the green tint arrives much later…:

And the top of Joseph’s hair is more see-through:

Let’s wrap this ridiculously humongous comparison with one… credit difference! Check out the newly added 小美野雅彦 (Komino Masahiko) and 石本峻一 (Ishimoto Shun’ichi - you might remember him from Battle Tendency #19), at the bottom! Animation Director 寺井佳史 (Terai Yoshifumi) has also been moved to the right to make space for the two new arrivals:

Whew! Oh, boy, this was a long one! With 290 images and 36 videos, it is officially the longest comparison to date! I wonder which episode will be able to break this record. I can’t wait to find out… I just hope it won’t be too soon!

Hello hello, lovely people! Welcome to yet another (slightly late) comparison! I hope you’ve had a good two-weeks-and-something in the meantime, and I trust you’re ready to plunge into episode #21, “The 2 vs. 100 Strategy”, or “the one where not much happens at all”!

Let’s get this party started!

For today’s exhibit A, feast your peepers on this here frame, in which we can see that Lisa Lisa’s face has been redrawn, and Joseph’s cheek lines and eyes are have also been retouched:

Here, the shading on Joseph’s left shoulder has been retouched, and the background (hand included!) is more zoomed in:

Aaah, take a long look! Take a hard whiff! Can you feel it? Everything has been redrawn here… How majestic:

Here, Lisa Lisa has been completely redrawn and… “Wired Beck” (yes, I had to google that) has been shaded differently:

And, at the very end of this bit, she no longer turns around to face him:

Here, Lisa Lisa has been very heavily retouched, and the scratch texture overlay is much less visible. I hope you like to look at redrawn frames of Lisa Lisa, because hoo boy, you’re about to see a handful:

Later on in the same scene, when… “Wired Beck” shows up on the left part of the screen, his forehead is significantly darker:

Here, Joseph’s face slides to the right waaay more slowly:

“Wired Beck” here has a new scratch texture overlay:

Lisa Lisa is back at it once again:

Here, “Wired Beck”’s left shoulder has been retouched…:

And here, he’s got an extra thorn on his forehead, his upper lip is darker and a bunch of lines between his pecs have been retouched:

The shading on Lisa Lisa is a little flatter here:

And here, the foreground is shaded a little differently, and Lisa Lisa has been redrawn in the background:

Here, Lisa Lisa’s neck has been properly shaded, and her shades correctly cast a shadow on her face (you’ll start to notice this coming up a few more times in today’s comparison):

…one such example coming right up! In addition to the added shades shade (ho ho), the shading on both is slightly different here, a few lines on Lisa Lisa’s side are a little thicker and the scratch texture overlay is lighter:

The steps in this scene are completely different and make more sense:

Here, the colours on Joseph are a little flatter, and Lisa Lisa’s head has been redrawn once again:

The colours on Joseph are again a little flatter, and Kars has been retouched too:

Here, a bunch of lines on Wham’s side of the screen are thicker, and Kars is wearing a little less make-up:

Both Lisa Lisa and the Super Aja stone have been retouched here:

Yes! Everything is better!:

Lisa Lisa again here:

The shades shade now make actual sense…:

And here, the scratch texture overlay is lighter in some areas, Kars’ pupil is slightly bigger and brighter, he’s wearing less make-up, a line on Wham’s nose is thicker and one of his eyes is brighter:

The shadow again:

Joseph is shorter, buffer and significantly redrawn here:

Joseph’s been redrawn again, here:

Everything has been moved! Everything has been redrawn! The lines are thinner!:

Joseph’s nose tip and mouth have migrated south by a little bit, and his cheek line is also longer here:

Another Lisa Lisa redraw for your expert eyes, kind ladies and sirs:

The colours are looking a little brighter here…:

Lisa Lisa has been redrawn here too, and she’s taller to boot:

Here, the camera has been moved up a little bit, both hands have been recoloured and reshaded, and the Super Aja stone has also been retouched:

And the book/picture album actually pushes Lisa Lisa’s hand closed, in the BDs:

Lisa Lisa has been redrawn prettier and taller here once again:

Joseph’s forehead shadow is darker here, and his hair has a more interesting shading going on:

Have some more Lisa Lisa, who is now… Holding the book in a very strange manner (from the second frame on):

HAVE SOME MORE LISA LISA I SAID:

This fire is a little brighter…:

…While this one is completely different:

Both Lisa Lisa and Joseph have been retouched here:

L I S A L I S A:

And another wildly redrawn scene! I love these:

And again here:

Kars has been redrawn here, and when Wham shows up, there’s a slightly darker shading at the bottom of the frame:

Here all the fires are different, all the vampires have better colours and there’s more of a distortion around the edges of the frame:

And, for today’s last difference, the credits have been removed to this episode too, because… You guessed it! The BDs have added the regular ending at the end of the episode:

Whew! And with that, today’s comparison comes to a close. Thank you all for taking some time out of your days to visit this silly blog! I hope you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you all next time for the first part of the showdown against Wham, Battle Tendency #22 - A True Warrior!

Hello, ladles and jellyspoons! Welcome back to this quaint little blog where we analyze and scrutinize and pick apart our favourite Chinese cartoon! Today we’re going to take a look at Episode #20, “Caesar’s Lonely Youth”! I hope you’re ready for some drama.

Let’s get going!

Today’s first comparison is a video of this dude getting stepped on, which is now animated in the BD version:

Here, this dude’s face has been shaded differently:

The colouring on the same dude is looking smoother here (and a tiny teensy bit of his nose has also been retouched):

Here we have a brighter and sharper animation:

Caesar has been moved to the right by like… one pixel:

Another brighter and sharper animation here…:

Caesar is looking much smaller here! How cute:

In this frame, Messina’s arm is uncensored, and there’s more blood too:

Here, a tiny bit on Caesar’s head has been properly recoloured, and the gash on his right arm is darker:

Another brighter and sharper bit… Sort of:

Caesar’s face has been retouched here:

Wham has been pretty much uniformly retouched, reshaded and recoloured here, and most lines are also thicker:

The same differences apply here, and this transition is also way sharper:

And another one here…:

The tracks in the snow have been reshaded:

A bunch of things have been reshaped, retouched, recoloured, reshaded, and several other words that start with “re”:

Whew! That was a long series of frames. Alright, let’s move on! Here’s a brigher bit…:

And another brighter and sharper animation…:

Aaand another one here:

Here, Caesar’s eyes have been retouched, and now he’s casting a shadow on the snow:

And here, Caesar has once again been made way smaller, via the size of his shadow:

The back part of Caesar’s jacket has been recoloured here:

Messina’s arm has been uncensored once again here, and the bottom scrolling text is no longer present (as is generally the case in all BDs):

Oh man, I just adore when frames get completely redrawn! Look at this:

Alright, I’m not going to claim I know what that thing was in the TV version, that pink and brown thing on the right, but they removed it in the BDs:

The camera is more zoomed out here:

In this beautiful bit, the highlights are whiter and the dark parts are blacker, resulting in an even more dramatic scene:

And here, the lights are way less bright at first, but then they get waay brighter and blurrier:

Here, the distortion from Wham’s Divine Sandstorm is stronger:

Both Joseph and Lisa Lisa have been moved in this shot:

The shading on Wham is less dramatic here, the scratch texture overlay is a little weaker, and the two wounds on his chest no longer glow with a mysterious, overworldly glow:

Here, have a bunch of different lines and shades:

Here, Wham’s arms have been retouched, the lava in his wounds is different and the steam coming off from his body has also been redrawn:

And here, pretty much everything has been very subtly retouched:

Wham has an extra armband/strap thingie in this part here:

And here, a small bit on his nose has been retouched, his eyes have been shaded a little bit better, and the horn hole… thing he’s got on his forehead no longer has an outer edge:

In this flashback scene, everything is a little brighter and sharper, old man Zeppeli’s body is uncensored and the texture on the onomatopoeia is also a little different:

The background here has a little more contrast in the BDs:

And again here, plus a softer texture on Caesar…:

And, when he looks up, the background is less stylized:

Caesar’s upper lip has been shaded here…:

The colours on Joseph are softer here, and Lisa Lisa has been redrawn:

The camera is more zoomed out here, Wham has been retouched and reshaded in several places, his eyes are now glinting with the spark of life, the background is different, the two wounds have been added back to his chest and the spike on his left shoulder is now correctly over the shawl and no longer behind it:

Here, the shading on one of Wham’s little braid thingies is slightly different, and the border of his shawl has been drawn in behind the very same little braid thingie:

Joseph and Lisa Lisa are both a little taller and have been retouched, here:

Joseph now has his top teeth back:

This scene is brighter, sharper and has better colours:-

In this scene, the camera has been moved a little and both characters have been retouched pretty intensively:

And Joseph’s eyes tremble as well:

And, from here on, there will be no credits, since the BD adds a separate ending section:

Lisa Lisa has been redrawn here:

And Joseph has been moved a little bit to the right here:

Caesar’s blood has been moved too, here… What a sad ending to today’s comparison:

Alright, that was it for today! There wasn’t anything too major this time around, but what can you do? I hope you enjoyed the experience nonetheless!

Welcome back, ladies and gents! Yeah, I know, this comparison is a little early… I assume that’s not a problem for you! Let’s not lose any precious time, and let’s dive right into this week’s episode, “Battle Tendency #19 - Race to the Cliffs of Death”!

Back to our beautiful boy… Joseph’s hair, ear and nose have been all retouched:

This pretty terrible thing has been uncensored:

And this other terrible thing has been uncensored as well:

Are you ready for a retouched and slightly moved Stroheim?:

These two blam blam pew pew sequences are sharper and brighter:

Back to Joseph! Here he is, looking still shocked but a little better:

Here, Stroheim (or what we can see of his glorious metal body) has been retouched and slightly moved:

Everybody has been retouched and moved here! The table too:

Kars looks MUCH, MUCH better here, and he’s actually doing a good job of shielding his face with his right arm:

The hole in Kars’ hand has been uncensored again here:

The tiny Joseph in the background has been retouched slightly:

As has been Kars, here:

And again here (and Stroheim too):

Joseph (and the rest of the background) are now way less blurrier here:

Another “let’s retouch everything” extravaganza, here! Check it out:

The background is different here, and Joseph looks a little resized and tweaked:

Kars looks better (and less wrinkled here):

Ok, I don’t understand why, but here Joseph’s right eye looks duller in the BD version:

Kars is wearing less makeup here:

Everything looks a little better here, and the camera has been moved down a little bit:

Kars is once again wearing less makeup here, and his upper lip has been shaded a little bit more:

All three have been heavily retouched here (Messina is the one who benefited the most out of it):

The camera is more zoomed in here, and Joseph’s face has also been slightly retouched:

Everything has been tweaked here:

Joseph looks MUCH BETTER here, thankfully… Some of these frames are just… The best:

Both Kars and Joseph are smaller here, and have been slightly retouched too:

Kars’ face has been tweaked here:

Here he’s been retouched, the texture overlay is less heavy…:

…and these frames have been completely redrawn:

Everything has been heavily retouched here, and most lines are thinner:

There’s a bunch of slightly brighter frames… Here’s one:

Here Joseph’s arm has been retouched and moved:

And here most things have been retouched, both Joseph and Kars are a little higher and the perfect Aja has no longer disappeared from Joseph’s right hand:

Have a retouched Kars reenacting the fantasies of a couple of people out there:

In the final couple of frames or the previous scene, the BD adds some droplets of blood:

This shot is more centered and most things have been retouched again:

And here too! I really like Caesar’s BD version:

Kars has been completely redrawn here… Have a bunch of goofy frames!:

The camera has been slightly zoomed here here, and Kars has been retouched (again):

Joseph no longer looks like Voldemort here, plus he’s been moved and a couple of things have been tweaked here and there… There’s some treasures in this one as well:

Here everything is retouched, less blurry and closer to the camera:

Another retouched Kars here…:

And a retouched Joseph…:

Aaand a redrawn Kars…:

Most lines in this scene are thicker, and a couple of shades are different:

Kars’ face is looking a lot better here, once again (and the rest has also been retouched):

There’s a slight distortion around the edges here, Joseph and Kars have been moved and both are retouched:

Here the camera has been moved to the right a little bit, Messina is taller and Stroheim’s casting a slightly darker shadow:

Once again, Kars is wearin less makeup here:

Another zoom in here, and Kars has also been redrawn:

And here he’s just been redrawn:

Here Kars has been shaded differently, and his face has also been retouched:

Another retouched Kars, walking off in the distance:

The sportsmen in this compilation have all been redrawn:

Caesar and Lisa Lisa have been retouched here, Lisa Lisa is shorter, the background has been slightly moved and a couple of shadows are different:

Both Messina and Lisa Lisa have been retouched here, most lines on Messina are thicker and he’s also been shaded better:

Most lines are thicker here! All three have been retouched! Some shadows are different!:

Lisa Lisa’s face has been redrawn here, and Messina’s eyes have also been retouched:

Lisa Lisa again here, and Caesar has a couple of thicker lines on his face (and scarf) too:

All three eyes visible in this frame have been retouched, Caesar’s ear has been properly shaded, a line on his scarf has been redrawn and his left eyebrow no longer goes over his bandana:

In this tense and fateful fight between brothers both are taller, most lines are thicker, most things have been redrawn and a couple of shadows have been changed too:

Caesar has been moved, redrawn and the lines are, once again, thicker:

Here, the lines are you guessed it, most things have been retouched and the camera has been moved… Prepare for another treasure trove full of goofy faces:

Caesarino’s face looks better here too:

And most things look better here (and most lines, strangely, are thinner):

And Caesar closes his eyes while walking off:

The camera has been moved up a little bit, and Caesar has been retouched again:

The camera and background have been moved a little bit here, and both characters have been retouched:

Here the colours are more vivid, the shades are better, the lines are thicker, all thre have been retouched… It’s just a solid, yet not ovely dramatic overhaul:

Joseph’s nostril area and mouth have been moved down a little bit here, they added a line on his neck, some shading on his ear and eyes and twaked a couple of lines all over the place:

Phew! We made it to the credits once again! This was a massive one… But I hope you’re ready for 1 (one) credit change! Here, like in the previous… two? episodes, 亀井隆広 (Kamei Takahiro) has been added to the credits, and in this episode we also have 石本峻一 (Ishimoto Shun’ichi). Say hello:

And we’re done! Isn’t that incredible? What a gargantuan comparison. I can’t even begin to imagine how long this takes David Production… I’m really grateful they’re doing that, though! Well, I hope you had a good time, and I’ll see you again in a week or two for “Battle Tendency #20 - Caesar’s Lonely Youth”!

Hello again, friends, and well met! How are you doing? Hopefully not too bad. And if things aren’t looking too hot, maybe this new comparison will be able to make you feel a little bit better. I hope you’re ready for today’s comparison, “Battle Tendency #18 - Stroheim’s Counterattack”!

Let’s go!

Today’s first comparison, exactly like the last episode’s first comparison, is pretty much clear. The BDs inserted the opening to the episode, and therefore the initial bit doesn’t have any credits:

Here we have our first redraw for today… The first of many! Suzie Q has been very slightly moved to the left, and her face has been retouched (although I’m not sure if the final result is better):

And here, Lisa Lisa joins the redraw party:

Back to Suzie Q! Here, pretty much everything looks better:

…Sort of:

In this bit, Lisa Lisa has been retouched, Suzie Q is way less blurry and has been reshaded differently:

Suzie Q has been retouched here, and she’s a tad shorter as well:

Here, Lisa Lisa looks prettier and a little more worried too:

Back to Suzie Q…:

Back to Lisa Lisa…:

Back to BOTH OF THEM, now! Here, they’re both shorter and Suzie Q has been retouched as before:

Here, the background is blurrier and Joseph’s face has been retouched:

And here Suzie Q has been shaded differently, and a couple of lines on Joseph’s face have also been tweaked:

Here, most things have been either moved or scaled differently:

Joseph has been completely redrawn here, and Suzie Q’s upper lip is no longer shaded:

Joseph’s huge face and neck areas have been completely redrawn here:

Now it’s Suzie Q’s turn to be completely redrawn:

Back to Joseph! Notice also the moved background:

Most things have been retouched here, and both Caesar and Joseph’s heights have been adjusted (or the camera’s moved?):

Lisa Lisa’s face has been retouched in this +++very lewd+++ shot:

Ok. Alright. Look. I know that being an animator is an incredibly hard, incredibly complex job. But please. Just please. Look at this first frame. Everything’s changed, yeah. Everything’s been tweaked or moved in little ways. But that hand. Look at Caesar’s left hand. Good god:

Ok, here’s the rest of the frames from the same shot. Sorry, I just had to single out that hand from before:

And, once again… Everything’s been tweaked here. I’m not sure which version looks better:

In this scene, the light behind Suzie Q is way more dramatic and there’s a new motion blur-kind of effect. The bottom corners of the frame, below her arms, are also black:

Caesar, Lisa Lisa and Joseph have been moved and retouched in this horizontal pan:

In the eyecatch, Suzie Q’s upper lip has been retouched, and there’s a new blur effect on the right part of the shot:

The blood effects in this scene are darker:

Lisa Lisa has been slightly moved and retouched here:

As has been Caesar, here:

Here, the shading on the brain is slightly lighter, and Lisa Lisa’s head has been retouched as well:

Everything has been retouched here, and Lisa Lisa looks way more surprised:

This douche’s hands have been uncensored, and the bottom of the frame has a different shading here:

And, towards the end of the shot, there’s a much brighter light:

Are you ready for the most important difference you’ll ever see on this goddamn site? Are you? Well, hold on to your butts and brace yourselves, because the colon has been moved up by a few pixels:

Whew. What a rollercoaster. Back to less important stuff… Caesar has been retouched (again):

The car in the rearview mirror has been shaded much better, and it now casts a shadow too:

Caesar again:

THE COLON! IT MOVED AGAIN!:

Alright, we made it to the credits once again! Here, as it was the case in the last comparison, 亀井隆広 (Kamei Takahiro) has been added at the bottom:

Aaaand that’s it for today! Incredible… I had forgotten how it felt to do a comparison that wasn’t hundreds and hundreds of images long. I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless! Be sure to tune in next time for an in-depth look at “Battle Tendency #19 - Race to the Cliffs of Death”!